Word: vetoes
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...earlier proposal by some of the Europeans to amend U.N. Resolution 242; instead of referring to the Palestinians as refugees, a new version of the resolution would have effectively recognized their right to a homeland. Before the summit, President Carter had warned the Europeans that the U.S. would veto any such measure. The President was concerned that an initiative of that sort could jeopardize the Camp David peace process and cause Israel to pull out of the stalled talks on Palestinian autonomy. For the same reasons, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had also asked the Community to reconsider...
...nearly 30 years had a Democratic Congress overridden a Democratic President's veto.* Still, that was exactly what happened to President Carter's $10 billion oil-import tax last week. The levy, which would have cost the U.S. motorist 10? per gal., was first rejected by huge margins in both houses. So when Carter carried out his threatened veto, the House did not even debate it. It immediately voted to override the President's veto by an embarrassing 335 to 34. From Republican Strategist Robert E. Bauman of Maryland came a victorious yell: "Yahoo!" Next...
Carter blamed his defeat on congressional spinelessness in an election year. "I recognize the political pressures," he said in his veto message. "I know this is a difficult issue for many members of Congress." Nevertheless, he added, the gas tax was "good public policy and good common sense." Without this kind of action to conserve energy, the U.S. would "remain dangerously vulnerable to severe economic disruptions from terrorism, accident, embargo...
...saying the union was responsible for the negotiation delay. When the two sides did return to the table, both parties deemed the dialogue "constructive," and the union significantly altered its list of demands, requesting the 10-9-8 plan. Bargaining concluded swiftly and the rank and file, despite its veto of the same proposal in March, ratified the contract in late...
Congressional resistance to the tax has grown so strong, in fact, that there may be enough votes to override a presidential veto. A House Ways and Means subcommittee last week voted 17 to 4 to reject the fee; and the Senate Finance Committee turned it down 14 to 4. Members of Congress are not happy about running a budget deficit, but they are much more frightened by the prospect of even a mild gasoline tax in an election year...